Change Google's Background Color To Save Energy? 519
i_like_spam writes "Recent commentary at Nature Climate Change describes an on-going debate about the energy savings associated with the background colors used by high-traffic websites such as Google and the NYTimes. A back of the envelope calculation has suggested energy savings of 750 Megawatt hours per year if Google switched their background from white to black. In response, a new version of Google called Blackle was created. However, other calculations by the Wall Street Journal suggest minimal energy savings."
Oh, the irony.... (Score:5, Funny)
double entendre (Score:5, Funny)
Once Google has gone Black, they'll never go back. That's what I hear, anyway.
Slashdotters, take notice (Score:5, Funny)
Bring back the BLINK tag... (Score:5, Funny)
Then again, that extra money might get taken up in seizure meds.
Ok, how about (Score:3, Funny)
Re:116,144.654 Watt hours saved? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:double entendre (Score:3, Funny)
Can't we go to the middle ground and let Google go Asian? Asians are way hotter than Whites and Blacks.
Of course, I wouldn't know how to implement that, but damn, they're Google, they're going to find a way!
On the other hand, we're talking about energy savings and global warming, so perhaps having a "hotter homepage" is going to be counterproductive.
We all know what's _actually_ going on here (Score:1, Funny)
That's right, the Blackle crew is seeking to replace all white people with black people. It's a well known fact that black people's internal batteries consume less power than those that power white people, and the dark tone of their skin means that they retain more of the sunlight that all humans need to enable the process of photosynthesis. Not only that, but as any student of physics knows, playing basketball and generally being cool by nature decrease the amount of entropy in the universe. That's right, black people violate the laws of thermodynamics via being hip and talking jive.
Also compare the lifestyles of each group. As an attempt to cover up their small penises, white people buy a lot of high tech gadgetry, creating, in essence, a proxy-dong out of cell phones, laptops, PDA's, Italian cars, etc... The preening of white people accounts for 85% of the world's energy consumption. Proven fact. What's the most extravagant black peacock display? Rims? They spin all by themselves! They're fucking perpetual motion machines! Black people have perpetual motion machines on their goddamn impalas. Does your iPhone have a fucking perpetual motion machine? No it doesn't, because Steve Jobs is white, and the knowledge of perpetual motion is forbidden to whites by the god Ogun. So suck it.
Look, mock me if you want, but I've seen this kind of thing before. Sure, you environmentalists are thinking "Well, if eradicating all people of my skin tone is what it takes to save mother earth, then I guess that I'll have to suck it up and take it." Well, to paraphrase Pastor Martin Niemöller, first they came for the whites, and you did nothing. Then they came for the kitties, and you did nothing. Then they came for the sort of caramel colored guys, but not the South Americans, just the kind of half-white/half black guys. Then they came for the old blues guitarist black guys from Alabama. And then they'll come for you. Is it really worth it?
I, for one, will fight against Blackle's attempt to eliminate all white people. It's an injustice,and must be stopped!
Re:silly (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Only applicable for CRTs (Score:4, Funny)
Mod me down and prove me right.
WHY IT GOTTA BE BLACK!??!! (Score:2, Funny)
Feel the (Score:5, Funny)
Skywalker: pardon?!
Re:double entendre (Score:5, Funny)
Umm... "body bgcolor=#FFFF00" ?
Re:Oh, the irony.... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Only applicable for CRTs (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oh, the irony.... (Score:5, Funny)
And judging from your heretical approach to this matter, I guess you may even use Emacs. Eew.
Re:Slashdotters, take notice (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Feel the (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Slashdotters, take notice (Score:5, Funny)
It was conserving energy.
Re:Oh, the irony.... (Score:2, Funny)
Oh, so YOU'RE the guy!
Black background in Porn too! (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot units please! (Score:1, Funny)
*Burning library's of congress
*Shuttle fuel tanks